Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Talking Points Memo notes emergence of Republican senatorial support — evident earlier in the House — for a continuation of popular aspects of Obamacare — coverage for the ininsured and young people, closing of the doughnut hole for seniors' drugs.

A unified party strategy emerges as the day of reckoning nears — Republicans must pretend they want to preserve Obamacare in at least partial fashion or end these hugely popular benefits. Republicans will craft a message that all of the pleasure can be retained without any of the pain of paying for it. Right. Like trickle-down — cutting taxes will cut federal deficits. We have 12 years of evidence for how poorly that worked.

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Attorney General Leslie Rutledge went to court late yesterday to get the state Supreme Court to halt mediation ordered by Circuit Judge Tim Fox in the case over issuing birth certificates to same-sex parents.

June 2018 is the expected publication date for a novel collaboration by former President Bill Clinton and crime writer James Patterson.

40/29 TV reports that two law officers were shot about 7 a.m. today near Hackett in Sebastian County and at mid-afternoon came word that one of them had died. Later in the day a suspect was taken into custody in the shooting.

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One of the booths at this week's Ark-La-Tex Medical Cannabis Expo was hosted by the Arkansas Hemp Association, a trade group founded to promote and expand non-intoxicating industrial hemp as an agricultural crop in the state. AHA Vice President Jeremy Fisher said the first licenses to grow experimental plots of hemp in the state should be issued by the Arkansas State Plant Board next spring.

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Sen. Jason Rapert is keeping a close eye on the Alabama Senate race.

An update to criticism of President Trump's terrible judicial appointments: Even Trump's team realized what a poor choice Alabama lawyer Brett Talley was for the federal bench in Alabama. His nomination has been withdrawn, NPR has reported: